As previously mentioned...we are on our holidays at our apartment in the Languedoc. The rain held off briefly this morning so we ventured out for a walk of a couple of miles to the beach and back. The local council have renewed a lot of the pavements here...with what appears to be a type of pink grit...very attractive, or at least it was, until.......the locals took their dogs for walkies.
I can no longer walk looking at the great scenery, enjoying the fresh air and the ozone...oh no....because every metre there was yet another pile of dog poop. On the way back having had to walk looking down at the pavement for fear of treading in the offending guano....I decided, having noticed all the effort (and expense) the council had gone to cutting hedges, planting new palm trees, it was time some of my hard earned taxes were spent clearing up the offending animal ordure. Thus I decided to photograph the little piles for a 50 metre stretch...and have 27 photo's...all will be emailed off to the Mairie tomorrow.
Once back at the flat I decided to check on line and see if there were other areas experiencing similar doggy outputs that were left for adults to step in and children no doubt on occasions to pick up...and came across these two articles. I am very much liking what the Spanish are doing to defeat the problem...
and then this....
http://gg75.free.fr/crottes_de_chiens/
and yes.....the reason I am sitting here doing this is because its raining, again!